100 Die From Tylenol Overdose Each Year. Marijuana = Zero

​Take too much Tylenol at once and you will die an agonizing death (it may take three or four days), because the acetaminophen overdose will kill your liver.

Take it at the recommended dosages for months or years, and you may still slowly destroy your liver.

At around four grams of Tylenol (4,000 mg, just eight extra strength tablets), liver toxicity sets in. This may or may not be fatal at that level, but at around 10 to 12 grams at once, death is almost a guarantee.

One hundred people die from acetaminophen overdoses every year in the United States. About half of those are intentional (suicides), and the other half are accidents, often by people who don’t realize acetaminophen is added to almost every prescription pain pill.

Smoke “too much” cannabis — if you’re able! — and you’ll just get really hungry, then really sleepy, and then wake up feeling rested and refreshed.

As a Schedule I “narcotic,” one of these substances can get you some serious federal prison time.

2 Comments

Arunigrace
on October 9, 2013 at 3:49 pm

People unintentionally overdose on Tylenol/acetaminophen all the time. Add alcohol or cold medicine and the liver is pretty much shot over time.

…Another type of accidental overdose occurs when people take multiple
remedies, for example, for the flu, cough and cold, headache, and fever,
without realizing that each contains acetaminophen. Accidental
overdoses can also occur in those who take prescription medications
containing acetaminophen, such as Vicodin® or Percocet®, since they may
not be aware of the medications’ acetaminophen content. Unknowingly,
they can overmedicate with acetaminophen when they reach for an
over-the-counter product containing this drug at the onset of flu, a
cold, or fever. It is all too easy to make this mistake. ”

I have osteoarthritis, a torn up labrum and cyst with bone degeneration causing joint impingement in my shoulder, neural foraminal stenosis (degenerative joint disease and my spine’s area for nerves has narrowed- pinching nerves and causing pain). That will continue to worsen and causes my hands to go numb, possibly one day for good.

I say that to say this: I live in Alabama and haven’t smoked since 2006. I am only 29 with my conditions worsening, but I would LOVE to be able to smoke a medicinal herb that not only helped the pain MUCH more than the asprin I currently take too much of (poisoning my liver), but marijuana even promotes bone growth (evidence leads it to helping bone loss diseases and the joint issues I suffer from). I’m not even 30, I don’t want to watch my conditions get worse when there is something that could help and I don’t wish to have to be a felon (I’ve already had my misdemeanor strikes) to benefit from the medicine. In fact, I believe these “old man” issues I have are only from my use of prescribed steroids my whole childhood. If that was the case big pharma caused my problems and it is the only medicine I can legally take now even though something else would help me more.
Sorry for the dump on the medical stuff, I just got in from the specialist for this stuff and was wishing I could use the medicine that i think will help.

Nice write-up. Thank you for your work in the cause and I pray more for others so much worse off than me that we can make real progress quickly and as far away as the south. Medically I think there should be no argument against our cause, but even recreational I feel just as strongly for those who wish to partake on that end (and until it is completely LEGAL, there will be obstacles for medicinal users).

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